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UNIT 5: COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Flashcards

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Prototype

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Mental image or the best example of a specific concept.

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Convergent Thinking “Logic”

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Focuses on coming up with the single, well established answer to problem

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Divergent Thinking “Imagination”

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Exploring many possible solutions (creativity).

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PROBLEM SOLVING STRATEGIES

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Trail and Error

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Trying a number of different solutions and ruling out those that do not work

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Algorithms

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Set of step-by-step procedures that provides the correct answer to a particular problem

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Heuristics

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Educated guess based of prior experiences (mental shortcuts).

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Representative Heuristics

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Comparing present situation to most representative mental prototype

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Availability Heuristics

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Decisions on examples and information that immediately spring to mind

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OBSTACLES TO PROBLEM SOLVING

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Mental Set

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People use solutions that have worked in the past

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Functional Fixedness

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View problems only in their usual manner

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Overconfidence

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Tendency to overestimate our own knowledge, skill, or judgement

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Hindsight Bias

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“I-Knew-It-All-Along” view events as more predictable then they really are

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Framing

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The acquired response to the formerly neutral stimulus.

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INTELLIGENCE

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Alfred Binet

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French psychologist invented first practical IQ tests

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G Factor

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(General Intelligence Factor that underlies all intelligent activity) Charles Spearman

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How do you calculate IQ?

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IQ=mental age/chronological age*100

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Fluid Intelligence

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Ability to reason think flexibly (diminish with adult aging)

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Crystallized Intelligence

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Accumulation of knowledge, facts/skills (increase with age).

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Howard Gardner

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Theory of Multiple Intelligences (8 distinct types)
Visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic, musical-rhythmic, logical-mathematical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic and bodily-kinesthetic.

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Wechsler Intelligence
Scales (WAIS)

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Intelligence
was made up a number of
different mental abilities
rather than a single
general intelligence factor

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Flynn Effect

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IQ scores
have been rising

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Achievement Tests

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Designed to measure
person’s level of
skill/knowledge in a
specific area

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Aptitude Tests

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Assess what a person is capable
of doing or to predict

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Reliability “Consistency”

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Tendency of a test to
produce the same scores
again and again each
time it is given to the
same people

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Test-Retest Reliability

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*Best for Intelligence, administering a test twice
at two different points in
time

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Split-Half Reliability

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Comparing the results of
one half of a test with the
results from the other half

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Validity

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The degree in which a test actually measures what it’s
supposed to measure

31
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Content Validity

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Test measures all aspects of
what it is designed to
measure

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Predictive

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Test accurately forecasts performance on a future measure

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Normal Distribution

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Bell-shaped curve in which
the majority of scores lie near
or around the average score

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Recall

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Being able to access
the information without
being cued (fill in the blank
test without word bank)

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Recognition

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Identifying
information after
experiencing it again
(multiple choice test)

36
Q

Relearning

A

The process by
which we learn something
for the second time. This
learning process often
occurs faster than the first
time (study for cumulative
final)

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Encoding

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The process of
putting information into
the memory system

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Storage

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The creation of a
permanent record of the
encoded information

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Retrieval

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The calling back
of stored information on
demand when it is needed

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Iconic Memory

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Visual

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Echoic Memory

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Auditory

42
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Haptic Memory

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Touch

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Maintenance Rehearsal

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Straight repeating of
information in order to
memorize it

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Chunking

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Process of taking
individual pieces of
information (chunks) and
grouping them into larger
units

45
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Working Memory

A

System in your brain that allows
you to temporarily retain
and manipulate the stored
information involved in a
complex process

46
Q

What did George Miller discover?

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Number of items a person
can remember and repeat
back using attention and
short-term memory
(George Miller)

47
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Implicit “Unconscious”
Memory

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Information that
you remember
unconsciously and
effortlessly

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Procedural Memories

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How to perform a specific
task

49
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Explicit “Conscious”
Memory

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Information that
you have to consciously
work to remember

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Semantic Memory
“Facts”

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Memories of facts,
concepts, names, and
other general knowledge

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Episodic Memory
“Events”

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Long-term
memory that involves the
recollection of specific
events, situations, and
experiences

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Prospective Memory

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Remembering to
complete a task in the
future

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Long-Term Potentiation
(LTP)

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Strengthening of a
synaptic connection that
happens when the
synapse of one neuron
repeatedly fires and
excites another neuron
(Kandel & Schwartz)

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Forgetting Curve

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The exponential loss of
information shortly after
learning it (Hermann
Ebbinghaus)

55
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TYPES OF AMNESIA (FULL OR PARTIAL LOSS OF MEMORY)

A
56
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Retrograde Amnesia

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Cannot remember things
that happened before the
event that caused their
amnesia

57
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Anterograde Amnesia

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Condition in which a
person is unable to create
new memories after an
amnesia-inducing event

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Serial Position Effect

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When we ry to retrieve a
long list of words we
usually recall the last
words (recency effect) and
first words best (primary
effect), forgetting the
words in the middle

59
Q

Encoding Failure

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Occurs
when a memory was
never formed in the first
place (without effort,
many memories never
form)

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Proactive (Previous)
interference

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Older memories interfere with
the retrieval of newer
memories

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Retroactive (Recent)
interference

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Newer memories interfere with
the retrieval of older
memories

62
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Flashbulb Memory

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Vivid and detailed memories that people create during times
of personal tragedy,
accident, or emotionally
significant world events

63
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Elizabeth Loftus (1944)

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Extensive research on
memory construction and
false memories and how
memory is changeable, it is
not always accurate

64
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Misinformation effect

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Exposed to misleading
information we tend to
misremember

65
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Method of Loci

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Association of words on a list with visualization of places on a
familiar path

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Context Dependent
Memory

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Easier Recall of
information while in the
same “context” of
environment in which it
was acquired

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State Dependent Memory

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Memories that are
triggered or enhanced by a
person’s current mood
because of the relationship
to memories formed when
you were in a similar state

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